The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 eBook

“Narada said, Salutations to thee, O God of
gods, O thou that art freed from all acts! Thou
art he who is divested of all attributes, who is the
Witness of all the worlds, who is called Kshetrajna,
who is the foremost of all Beings, who is Infinite,
who is called Purusha, who is the great Purusha, who
is the foremost of all Purushas, who is the soul of
the three attributes, who is called the Foremost,
who is Amrita (nectar), who is called Immortal, who
is called Ananta (Sesha), who is Space,[1817] who
is without beginning, who is both Manifest and Unmanifest
as existent and not-existent things, who is said to
have his home in Truth,[1818] who is the first of
gods (Narayana), who is the giver of wealth (or of
the fruits of acts), identified with Daksha and other
Lords of the Creation, who is the Aswattha and other
big trees, who is the four-headed Brahman, who is
the Lord of all created Beings, who is the Lord of
Speech,[1819] who is the Lord of the universe (or
Indra), who is the all-pervading Soul, who is the
Sun, who is the breath called Prana, who is the Lord
of the waters (viz., Varuna), who is identifiable
with the Emperor or the King, who is identifiable
with the Regents of the several points of the compass,
who is the refuge of the universe when it is dissolved
in the final destruction,[1820] who is Undisplayed
(unrevealed), who is the giver of the Vedas unto Brahman,
who is identifiable with the sacrifices and Vedic
studies achieved by Brahmanas with the aid of their
bodies, who is identifiable with the four principal
orders of the deities, who is every one of those four
orders, who is possessed of effulgence, who is possessed
of great effulgence, who is he unto whom the seven
largest offerings in sacrifices are presented with
the Gayatri and other sacred mantras, who is Yama,
who is Chitragupta and the other attendants of Yama,
who is called the wife of Yama, who is that order of
the deities called Tushita, who is that other order
called Mahatushita, who is the universal grinder (Death),
who is desire and all diseases that have been created
for aiding the advent of Death, who is health and freedom
from disease, who is subject to desire and passions,
who is free from the influence of desire and passions,
who is Infinite as exhibited in species and forms,
who is he that is chastised, who is he that is the
chastiser, who is all the lesser sacrifices (like
Agnihotra and others), who is all the larger sacrifices
(like those called Brahma, etc.), who is all the
Ritwijas, who is the origin of all sacrifices (viz.,
the Vedas), who is fire, who is the very heart of
all sacrifices (viz., the mantras and hymns uttered
in them), who is he that is hymned in sacrifices, who
takes those shares of the sacrificial offerings that
are presented to him, who is the embodiment of the
five sacrifices, who is the maker of the five sections
or divisions of time (viz., day, night, month, season
and year), who is incapable of being understood except
by those scriptures that are called Pancharatra, who